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From: Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>
To: matthieu.dubuget@gmail.com, David MENTRE <dmentre@linux-france.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] file mapped bigarray and Unix.unlink
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 05:43:48 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <779233.40880.qm@web111508.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> (raw)


Hi,

> > The strategy I adopted is to spawn a recursive thread that
> > periodically try to erase the file until success.
> 
> That seems the wrong solution to me. The unlink syscall should work
> immediately or you have another reason why it only works after a
> certain time.

I second David's discomfort.  Have you considered issuing a sync after
the unlink?  For efficiency reasons the OS may not actually be deleting
the file immediately after the unlink; the sync should force it to do it.

Cheers,
Dario Teixeira






             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-02 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-02 12:43 Dario Teixeira [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-07-02  8:10 Matthieu Dubuget
2009-07-02  8:54 ` [Caml-list] " Matthieu Dubuget
2009-07-02  9:49   ` David MENTRE
2009-07-02 10:15     ` Matthieu Dubuget
2009-07-02 12:48 ` Florian Hars

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